(Plate 4744), and forms a striking object in autumn from 
the rich golden yellow and red colouring of the foliage. 
The fruit is eatable, being less acid than in the common 
species of Europe and Asia. 
Descr. An erect bush, four feet high and upwards, 
with stout angled and grooved erect puberulous branches ; 
spines three- to five-branched, slender. Leaves deciduous, 
fascicled, one to one and a half inches long, sessile or 
narrowed into a short petiole, obovate or oblanceolate, 
quite entire or with a few spinous teeth on the thickened 
margin, tip rounded, apiculate or aristate, thinly coriaceous, 
often puberulous beneath, opaque above, rather shining 
beneath, scarlet and yellow in decay. Peduncles solitary 
or fascicled, very rarely two-fid., decurved, about two- 
thirds of an inch long. Flower one-half to two-thirds of 
an inch in diameter, pale golden yellow. Outer sepals 
_ narrowly oblong, inner as long but nearly twice as broad ; 
petals obovate, tip rounded, pale yellow. Berry two-thirds 
of an inch long, globosely obovoid, scarlet, five- to six- 
seeded; style very short or 0, stigma pulvinate— 
Ji Deis : 
Fig. 1, Petal; 2, stamen; 3, ovary :—all enlarged. 
